Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary?<span> The household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of the large amount of sewing work she did.</span><span> Gregor even learned, listening to the evening conversation about what price they had hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond of wearing them at functions and celebrations.</span><span> </span>
Answer: The Montgomery bus boycott.
The first rhyming couplet does...
"<span>Thy various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck'd with pomp by thee!"
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